207: The LazyTown Circus (prod 203)

 Original airdate: February 12, 2007

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary

Directed by Magnus Scheving

Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings

Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello

Puppeteers - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess, Ronald Binion, Emily Decola, Mary Robinette Kowal

In this episode, a song that starts off wonderfully and ends terribly is played, and Stephanie dresses up in her most horrendous costume in the entirety of the 100+ episodes produced (including the campaigns, Extra, Sproutlet Show).

Sportacus is playing with a Yoyo in the airship. He wraps the string around his water bottle and pulls it to him. While drinking, the crystal beeps. He goes outside to see what it is, and it’s a fly stuck in a mailbox. WOW. JUST. WOW. Using the yoyo, he gets it out.

 

 

Look at that 3D effect. In 2013, three episodes from the then-new season were played in cinemas. Imagine if this was one of them and it was in 3D! Anyways, he wraps the yoyo around the mailbox handle and pulls up the yoyo, opening the mailbox and freeing the fly. The main episode starts with Trixie dialogue, my second-least favourite character so it’s getting off to a bad start. She’s doing a high-wire (that isn’t that high), and once she finishes, it’s Ziggy’s turn. Can you predict what happens next? Yep, right. Robbie decides to eavesdrop (after playing two of his piano keys, for someone reason one makes a moo noise, so that was funny)..

Ziggy gets scaareeed.. beep beep beep. Sportacus attaches a hook to his belt buckle, and jumps out the airship. Supa. Kewl. Mainly because he’s 3D animated in one of the shots & he doesn’t even hit the ground.

Anyways, Ziggy’s still being a whiny scaredy-cat, he’s not even halfway through the walk, and Robbie is literally CHUCKLING. I don’t blame him, either. Sportacus flips over to him, and he gives a ‘u serious right neow bro’ face to Ziggy, then he smiles and taps his shoulder. He lifts him off. Ziggy tells him he knew he wasn’t that high up but he was still scared, and he gives him some good advice - try to be a little brave. Once he leaves, it’s Stephanie’s turn and she says that it’s too low for her. Trixie says she’s never been on a real one before, Steph says she has (she says they’re as high up as TREES).

Ziggy believes her and even asks for her to help him and Trixie with the high walk and to do other cool stunts, and the idea comes for them to start a THE LAZYTOWN CIRCUS (lol episode name in episode review hehe) with animals, cotton candy (Guess who said that? They both said no), music, stunts, & cotton candy (Oh my god, Ziggy. SHUT. UP). When they leave, she decides to try the high walk.

Meanwhile, Stingy & Pixel are being epic gaemers!!11!! when Trixie comes in and tells them everything, including that they need animals. Stingy comes with actually funny dialogue - 'Pick Pixel! He’s been eating cheesy garlic Crunch-O’s all day and he smells like elephant feet! (Pixel breathes in his face) Urgh, call animal control, something’s died in Pixel’s mouth!’

Out of all the screenshots I’ve took for this review, this is my ultimate favourite. So after some more funny dialogue and an angry Trixie moment, we go back to Stephanie attempting the high walk once more, but she herself is scared.

When she sees Ziggy running to her, he puts the pole higher then it originally was. Ziggy runs to Stephanie with a clown nose on and tells her he is a clown. Red nose or not, he is a HUGE CLOWN. He falls (??????) Robbie laughs. He stands up, questions how high the pole is and tells Stephanie she’s his hero. So screw the dude who saves you everyday & tells you how to live a healthy life. When Robbie overhears Ziggy’s excitement about starting a circus, he attempts to think up a plan to stop it, but he can’t think of anything. The end. Until, he starts whining about the annoying things of circuses and talks about cannons - then he devises a plan to shoot Sportacus out of one.

Ziggy sends Sportacus a letter asking if he’ll do some circus stunts. He decides a few moves to do - the first one being this one where he throws a tennis racket from arm to arm, throws a ball in the air, AND HOLDS THE RACKET WITH ONE FINGER, AS WELL AS THE BALL. Then he throws a glass plate onto there as well.

And here comes a somewhat funny Disguise Time - Robbie chooses the ringmaster outfit and a light shines on him like he’s actually in a circus.

He introduces himself as Roberto The Great, funny dialogue, etc. He ends his speech with 'LET’S START THE SHOW!’ Anyways, for once, they do something with the Mayor’s approval. They tell him about the circus. When Trixie says Steph’s doing the high walk, she says Sportacus might do it. The animals Stingy and Pixel introduce themselves with obnoxious noises. LAZYTOWN FURRY PROPAGANDA AT 3AM NOT CLICKBAIT MUST WATCH 4K ULTRA HD. Anyways, Sportacus flips in and handstands, saying he is ready for circus stunts.

Milford starts saying a bunch of stuff they need for the circus, and Trixie tells him they already have most of the stuff he’s talking about. Sportacus says they just need a ringmaster, and they get a ringmaster.

Roberto instructs them to follow him, and somehow, the LazyTown circus has just.. gotten there. Did he buy it like in Mystery of the Pyramid? Did he build it? Was it already there? They all follow him and go inside the circus.

They look for a few seconds until Robbie tells them to get prepared. Then we cut to Bessie and Milford for like five seconds after they bump into each other and Milford tells her he’s got the tickets. Well, that was kinda useless. Anyways, Pixel is the head of a zebra.. horse thingy & Stingy is the tail which he complains about. They compromise to take turns. Then Pixel burps and Stingy runs out for air. I don’t get why this is slightly funny but it is. Everyone is in their costumes, Milford & Bessie have arrived, and it’s Time to Start The Show! (During the video, Steph plays the sax and spit comes out. Yuck.)

After taking the screenshot, I realized that is not the case.. *facepalm*, Trixie made it look like that with her water flower. After the song, Roberto tells Sportacus his very important role - to go into the cannon and fly into the 'very safe’ net. He agrees once Roberto says the kids would love it. So he handstands his way to the cannon.

Before he gets in, Roberto tells him to put on his goggles (don’t want anybody gettin hurt). He also tells him to cover his ears so he doesn’t hear anything, and it works. Anyways, it’s time for the high wire and Stephanie’s too scared to. Roberto gets Ziggy and Trixie out of the way and tells them to stay there, pulling a lever that traps them in a net. He pulls up the net so they’re just hanging in the air. Stephanie yells 'Oh no!’ and Roberto overhears her.

Roberto chases Stephanie for a while, bringing up the question - what would he do if he caught her? Anyways, she climbs up the ladder, and Roberto drops the ladder so she can’t get down. Milford and Bessie are idiots who think this is all staged. Stephanie attempts to get to them, but she can’t, and she reveals she was lying. Took her long enough! Ziggy says she just has to be brave, and what ya know? She does it!!

lolwut. The crystal beeps, which Robbie thinks is the perfect time to launch Sportacus out. Sportacus swings onto this swingy thingy with his hands, and flips so now he’s holding onto it with his legs. When Steph loses grip, he catches her.

Stephanie does an astonishing backflip onto the ground, then ANOTHER one after she lands. Sportacus does one only. But then again, he’s Sportacus. He gets Ziggy & Trixie down, and the horse/zebra finally decides to make an appearance. Roberto says it’s the perfect getaway and uses it as one, but Stingy & Pixel can’t handle his weight, so they topple him over and he falls into a drum.

Notice the season one prop in the screencap. His hat falls off, and everyone finds out it’s Robbie. Then he tells the kids to not try this at home (LOL). Stephanie apologizes to them for lying about her bravery, but they say she was brave enough to be truthful & actually go on the high wire. Ziggy is still sad they didn’t get to see anyone on the high wire. So Sportacus goes on the high wire, and he’s so daring he does FLIPS on the wire!

Then they perform the circus version of Bing Bang, which is pretty bad if I may say. In the lair, Robbie says that he was so close and he’ll get Sportacus soon. He tries sitting down, but he can’t, ya know, considering he has a drum on his posterior.

7/10 - Revisiting it, I liked it more. It was the song & costumes that put me off.

 

206: The LazyTown Snow Monster (prod 210)

Original airdate: December 15, 2006

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Magnus Scheving, Mani Svavarrson, Noah Zachary

Directed by Magnus Scheving

Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings

Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello

Puppeteers - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess, Ronald Binion

Review of a Christmas special - valid because Christmas in July!

Sportacus is in his airship and he’s playing with a katana. Oh, go ahead and motivate kids to play with sharp things, okay. He throws a strawberry in the air and catches it with his katana. Same with a grape, a lemon, another strawberry, and a blueberry. He decides to unlock/open the door, AND HE THROWS THE KATANA OUT.

Then, he gets out a hook to bring the katana back up. The fruits are all in ice cubes, and he puts them all in a bowl. He calls them ‘Sportscandy Ice Cubes’ and puts them in a glass of water, and takes a sip.

I should probably point out he calls them cool. I really hope that pun was intended. It’s a lovely snowy day in LazyTown, and Milford seems to be looking for something when Stephanie comes in. Stephanie questions the smell ('Welcome to LazyTown’ reference?), and it’s Milford’s bait for catching fish. He tells Stephanie he can’t find his fishing hat. Whaddya know, he was WEARING IT. But Stephanie is looking for something of her own.

It turns out to be a costume. The kids have been playing Catch the Snow Monster and Stephanie is the snow monster this time, so she needs a fluffy, scary, tremendously horrifying. What do you know, Milford’s wearing it. So they do a hat swap.

Stephanie looks ridiculous. Milford thinks he looks pretty. Self-love crosses into delusion, but OK. So the kids are playing Snow Monster on the field, when Steph sees Ziggy on the court, scanning in front of him for her. Then she scares him and he dives for some reason. Pixel has a device to catch her. (Why does he wanna catch his crush..?) And Trixie’s going old-school, using a net (that she just found). And Stingy asks when it’s his turn to be the Snow Monster. Meanwhile, Milford is fishing.

He thinks he found a fish but he goddamn well knows he didn’t. The kids are still playing Snow Monster when Stingy’s whining about being it wakes up Robbie. He questions why they’re playing outside in winter (If I was them, I’d be drinking hot cocoa with marshmallows next to the heater, watching a movie.. ah… these Americans, so lucky with their snow. IT’S WINTER WHILE I’M WATCHING THIS AND IT’S NOT EVEN COLD!!). He decides to check out what they’re doing, and he sees the Snow Monster Steph, and RUNS AWAY while dabbing.

Stefan Karl brought so much life to Robbie Rotten. Then he realizes snow monsters aren’t real and reluctantly goes back to the periscope. He realizes it’s just the silly kids. THEN he feels something coming. It’s either a brilliant idea or his periscope hitting him in the back of the head.

Double dipper. Coincidentally and conveniently, Robbie literally already has a SNOW MONSTER COSTUME. Meanwhile while Milford is fishing, the ice starts to crack and instead of getting out of there he watches as it breaks. Or maybe he’s waiting for Sportacus to save him, because the crystal beeps and he does exactly that. He drives the skutla over Milford and tells him to tie his fishing rope to the Skutla’s wing thingy. And Sportacus turns over the skutla and drops Milford in a pile of snow. He pulls over in the air, puts on his scarf and checks on Milford.

It turns out he didn’t know how dangerous frozen lakes were because he didn’t see Macaulay Culkin in 'The Good Son’. Sportacus tells him abut the danger of frozen lakes, then goes back to his airship. Milford puts up a sign. Back at the lair is a fourth-wall break, and I hate fourth wall breaks mostly because most kids shows have annoying characters talking to the camera and LazyTown wasn’t the type of show for that and it never should’ve did that, and they didn’t! Well, with some promos and LazyTown Extra as an exception. Anyways, Robbie was fourth-wall breaking in the worst way - talking to the camera.

Robbie puts on the costume FINALLY. This disguise time doesn’t rhyme unfortunately, it’s just weather descriptions 'too rainy, too sunny..’ Anyways, when he discovers it works he is extremely happy. It’s Stingy’s turn to be the Snow Monster, and he says no-one can catch him. Then someone catches him.

Too soon. Sportacus flippity flops into the game to see what they’re doing and they explain everything to him. Stephanie asks him what his favourite thing to do as a kid in the snow was, and he says it was building a snowman. They do so while performing 'Snow, Give Me Snow’. Then once they finish he goes back to the airship. Anyways, for some reason Pixel thinks they need some tunes so he goes to get his solar-powered boombox which is stupid because it’s SNOWING. Anyways, the kids go in the fort, thus bringing us some funny dialogue. Ziggy says he wishes he could have a fort all year long, Trixie says it’d melt and become water, Ziggy says he’d just make it a water fort and Stingy says it would melt. While they’re all having fun, the party diarrhea-er Robbie comes out the shell.

As he falls down climbing over the wall, the kids hear him and wonder what it is. Stephanie goes outside to check what it was and she sees a 'The LazyTown Snow Monster’ as she said at the beginning of the episode. Robbie says that was great after Stephanie hides in the igloo. Trixie wants to catch the Snow Monster, but Stingy says they need a bigger net. Then Stephanie decides a way to stop a SNOW monster is by throwing SNOWballs at him. ???? They think it’s a good plan but the Snow Monster falls off the chair (I genuinely chuckled) so they can’t put it in action.

Meanwhile, Milford is on the field and he sees the igloo and decides to check it out. But the kids have their snowballs in their hands at they aim at the guy who runs the town. It takes them SIX SECONDS to figure out it’s not a snow monster.

He tells them that there is nothing to be scared of and they should come out. He tells them if there was a real snow monster there would be footprints. And the footprints he are talking about pop up TWICE. Then Milford has a nice surprise. He just needs to turn around. Which he does. And he screams. And he runs into his house and so do all the kids. Trixie decides to look out the window for the monster, Milford decides to lock the doors and Ziggy decides to run to Milford asking how much candy he has because apparently 'we need supplies until summer’.

Anyways, Stephanie devises a plan (Julianna’s acting is AMAZING in this episode.) - Ziggy wears the extremely terrifying white hat & jumps onto Milford’s back. Stephanie covers them with a white sheet. This is supposed to apparently scare the Snow Monster away.

Then they go outside, struggling to move. Trixie & Stingy are doubting the plan. And the two falling is the LAST STRAW for Trixie so she decides to go outside. Stingy asks to have her toys if she gets eaten. If I was Steph, I’d smack him. Anyways, when Robbie sees Trixie he starts to hide. When Trixie’s close to him, he keeps on moving and falling down so that she can’t find him. So if Trixie follows the sound he won’t even be there, until Robbie decides to lie down until she comes. When she finds him she isn’t so brave anymore.

She runs and hides behind a tree. Meanwhile, at Milford’s house, Stephanie and Stingy are convinced they’re fine. Trixie is still hiding and Ziggy/Milford are still trying to scare away Robbie. Robbie is scared of them. They are scared of Robbie. Pixel has finally got the boombox (weren’t you away for like ten minutes? slowpoke) but he doesn’t know where they are. So while he is looking around he spots the Snow Monster behind him. Meanwhile, Trixie has literally CLIMBED THE TREE BRANCH and it’s about to fall.

Sportacus’ crystal beeps, and it’s seemed to be taking him the whole episode to get back to the airship. Anyways, he sees Milford and Ziggy and says 'A snow monster scaring the kids away! This is serious.’ He flips his way over to Trixie. As he jumps over a wall, he calls for a snowboard and skis over to Trixie, catching her after she falls.

Trixie notices and tells Sportacus the snow monster is getting away, so he decides to throw a snowball at the sign, whacking Milford’s gyatt (why did I type this), and he falls over. Sportacus unveils the snow monster. Trixie tells him that’s not the snow monster he saw, and then Robbie shows up.

Robbie runs into the frozen lake and falls in. He grabs onto the sign and Sportacus gets the skutla. He attaches the hook to the sign and lifts him up. He drops him right outside Milford’s house, where the head of the disguise falls off, and everyone knows it’s him. His response? He admits it’s cold, and he goes back to the lair. They sing Bing Bang. Back in the lair, Robbie is so cold, he’s covering himself with two towels, putting one of those squishy bottles you put warm water on on his head, and his feet in BOILED WATER. He notices there’s a fish inside his shirt somehow and takes it out.

7.5/10 - It was better then the last Christmas special and acting was good.

205: Haunted Castle (prod 205)

 Original airdate: October 24, 2006

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Mani Svavarrson, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Magnus Scheving

Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings

Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello

Puppeteers - Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

I never liked this episode as I hate Halloween and this was Halloween themed. My country and religion’s hatred for Halloween aside, how is ‘Haunted Castle’?

Sportacus is riding his airship when he suddenly pulls the lever to stop. He flips out of the skutla, does a backwards cartwheel and a backflip, landing on the button that pushes out the table. He flips over and gets an apple. He suddenly hears a noise and wonders what it is. After checking his sports cupboard and bed, he gets out the airship to find out what it is. It turns out to be an owl. What does he do? The normal thing to do.

He talks to the owl and acts like it’s a human. He asks his name and it just hoots. He compliments him, calling it a 'cool’ name and says he’s Sportacus. Twas a lovely day in LazyTown - Milford is painting a fence and Bessie is hanging up laundry. Trixie.. scares Milford and he ruins the fence.

Robbie is doing the most ridiculous thing he can. He hates the noiseyness of the kids, right? So how does he resolve the fact his sleeps are getting distracted by loud kids? He sleeps outside with even louder kids. On an uncomfy bench. In a park. It’s no surprise when he gets woken up by Ziggy being pushed in a wagon by Stephanie. He turns his brain on and leaves.

Trixie goes to scare Stephanie and Ziggy, much to the annoyance of Steph. Trixie wants to go on the wagon and wants to be pushed towards Bessie’s laundry. Stephanie is reluctant until she puts on her helmet. She gets a big push from Stephanie, and she goes too fast and she’s about to crash into Bessie’s sheets. Stephanie says she’s about to crash into Bessie’s sheets. She crashes into Bessie’s sheets. Bessie falls down, ruins her hair and yells for Milford who is reading the news of his OWN TOWN.

The top headline is literally 'The mayor is planning to paint the house blue’. He’s reading news about himself. XD. Trixie says they were just having fun, Bessie is saying they ruined the sheets, and Stephanie is attempting to straighten them out. XD. So Milford tells them to push the wagon AWAY from the sheets and to not possibly piss off Bessie.. anyways, Ziggy gets in, it’s his turn, Milford pushes him a bit too hard .. and beepity-bip. He’s in trouble! The wagon goes up the slide Stingy’s trying to go down, then it goes back down and CRASHES INTO BESSIE’S LAUNDRY!! Almost. Sportacus grabs hold of the wagon.. and his flying ice-cream.

You can tell from his face in the screenshot he wants to gobble that ice-cream up. He gives it back to Ziggy after Bessie finishes being a complaining.. moron. Stingy comes to add possibly nothing to the conversation and asks what was going on as if any sane person would miss THAT. But Stingy’s never established as sane in any of the episodes. Neither are any of the other characters. Anyways, he starts describing what happened while waving around his hand holding the ice-cream cone. Ya see where this is goin? The cream FLIES off the cone and lands.. on Bessie’s sheets.

She is like, SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER ANGRY. She tells the kids they MUST follow the rules which they nod their heads in agreement too. But they have nowhere else to go. So Stephanie says they should BUILD THEIR OWN PLAYGROUND, as the land in LazyPark isn’t being used yet. So they all go to the park. The kids all yell 'LazyPark, here we come!’ Waking Robbie up, in shock as that is his favourite place of the town. Yeah, sure, screw your home that has all your clothes, food, and chairs and blankets and gadgets.

So he goes over to his periscope and looks outside. He yells that Lazy Park has always been lazy and should stay lazy. He also adds LAZYLAZYLAZYLAZYLAZY AAAAAARRRGGGH!!! Anyways, the kids are building the playground when Milford comes over to tell them about the famous Leaning Castle of LazyTown. If it’s so famous why did it take 40 episodes to get an episode about it?

He advises the kids not to go in the tower - and Trixie, the lair, says that they won’t. He also adds a new rule - they cannot go over the wall that leads to the castle. And another new rule - Ziggy’s the smolest so never leave him alone. They all follow the rules and Robbie turns his periscope around of anger and talks to himself. The periscope is turned to Bessie who has a sheet on top of her head. He looks at what’s happening, and unfazed, he says 'A ghost’.

Then he realizes, yells out 'A GHOST’ and LAUNCHES HIMSELF OVER THE RAILING ON PURPOSE. MANI SVAVARRSON PROBABLY WROTE THAT PART AND HE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN EVERY EPISODE OF THAT SHOW BECAUSE HE IS HILARIOUS. He climbs back up, talking to the 4 year old audi- I mean, himself, telling himself he wasn’t scared. He reluctantly looks in the periscope only to Bessie getting the sheet off her head, then tells himself only kids believe in ghosts. ANND HEEERREE COOMEESSS A BREEELEEEYAAANNT IDDEEAAA.

Scare the kids away by pretending to be a ghost. Tata. Meanwhile, at the playground, the kids name some supplies they bought and Pixel keeps on repeating them, but adds a 'Check’ to the end. Really annoying - check. It goes on for only two items because Ziggy said he brought a lollipop. Stephanie says you don’t need a lollipop to build a playground - you need legal permission and an adult guardian (but she doesn’t say those..). Ziggy says it doesn’t hurt to be careful. He has a point (a funny one). They then sing 'Playing on the Playground’

At the end of the song, it’s gotten dark. Ziggy says they should home, remembering what Milford said.. joking, he doesn’t care about what Milford said. He just scared of the ghost - which Trixie points out, and he starts yelling and asking 'What ghost??’ Everyone laughs except Stephanie, who tells Ziggy it was a joke. I see why she’s the favourite of many. SPORTACUS 4 DA WIN THO. Anyways, Trixie says she’s gonna go in the castle to see if there are really ghosts which everyone thinks is a bad idea.

Stingy and Pixel go to the castle with her. This is what Healthy Harold meant by peer pressure. Ziggy and Stephanie stay behind, and Stephanie says if they aren’t back in five minutes they’re going to the castle. So Robbie is left alone with the sheets - the perfect time to execute his plan. Meanwhile, Pixel, Trixie and Stingy have arrived at the castle, and Pixel admits it’s a bit scary. So, after a few seconds, Stingy squeals and Pixel asks if he saw a ghost. And YOU WILL ACTUALLY PAUSE THE EPISODE AND POP UP IN YOUR CHAIR OF ANNOYANCE OF WHAT HE FOUND. Well, that’s what I did.

It was a coin. A single. Coin. Gosh. Anyways, Robbie has finished painting ghost eyes on the sheet (but aren’t ghosts invisible..?) and the kids have been away for long. Stephanie asks Ziggy if she can go check what’s going on, and he says he can stay put for a minute.. well, half a minute. Then Stephanie comforts him by telling him she’ll be quick - but screw that, he doesn’t care. He only wants the lollipop (he licks it to calm down). Robbie has finished cutting up the sheets and his entire body is covered with ghost/sheet. Stephanie’s arrived at the castle and calls for the kids by just yelling 'Guys?’. She goes in the castle, and Trixie pops up, yelling boo. Stephanie jumps back, locking them in.

So when Stephanie tries to open the door, they realize they’re locked, no-one can hear them banging the door, and Stingy’s teeth start trembling. LOL!! Trixie says they should go to the top of the tower and yell for help, and Stingy says he’s not doing that, but Trixie asks him if he wants to be alone. (It’d have been funnier if she called him a chicken again.) So he goes up first. Meanwhile, Robbie decides to go sneak up on Ziggy, but he trips over a wagon. Ziggy turns around and assumes it’s Trixie. Then for some reason Robbie falls down. (??) Stephanie yells out his name, he sees Trixie, he looks at Robbie, and he yells.

Despite the fact he can’t.. ya know.. see.. he chases Ziggy around, and after a while Ziggy has tripped and a box is on top of his head but he continues running, and he runs out the door. The crystal beeps and Sportacus flies into town, and grabs two of Bessie’s pegs. Meanwhile, Ziggy has tripped over a rock, and fallen over and he can’t get out the box.

And like it should’ve down years ago, the Leaning Tower of LazyTown leans just a BIT too much. (The timing of this show is ridiculous) Luckily, Sportacus flips over to the tower and kicks it back in place!

Then he gets Ziggy out the box, and the tower leans again - but this time, he uses HIS HANDS to keep it in place! THEN HE KICKS OPEN THE DOOR!! Probably one of the best rescues ever. Anyways, when they’ve all gotten out the tower, they realize the ghost is getting away. Sportacus says he doesn’t think it’s a real ghost, then he flips onto a wall and pulls out the pegs. He pegs Robbie straight to Bessie’s hanging line and crawls out the costume - which is now revealed. (it hits hard this time because Bessie yells out 'ROBBIE ROTTEN’) After he runs to the lair, Milford runs over to them to check if they’re OK.

Trixie says it was her fault this all happened - and she’s right - it’s her no good doing stinky manure rule-breaking scooting red loving but got no lovers little self’s fault. But everyone else says it’s not her fault because they ALL broke the rules. YEAH, YOU DID, because of her!! DUHH?? But this is Nickelodeon. Anyways, they say that the most important thing is the lesson was learnt, but Stingy says it was that he found that coin, then they laugh (I’d throw him back in the castle and make it lean again goddammit) and perform Bing Bang.

In the lair, Robbie is sulking when he hears Hoot Hoot from earlier in the episode making noise. He goes to check what it is. Then he sees it on top of the shaft and RUNS BACK to the Leaning Tower. IT’S AN OWL, NOT AN ANGRY MOM WITH A SLIPPER. In relief that he got away from the owl (which apparently is more scary than an angry mom with a slipper), he wipes off his sweat, and leans on the tower and makes it lean even more then it did at the beginning of the episode.

Then he goes back to the lair.

6/10 - Took me forever to watch, cool rescue, songs and plot.